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opinr ' a n a r- ^aiui i iio ji iuq ftiuav-tions of the woman. It follows that shemust foot the hills. No other system la possible, deplorable as the system is.Verily, gone, gone glimmering Is the age when knighthood was in flower!Continental Tea on Washington’sI ft. © * I! tH. I HI il '“'Mi IIw V.. ill .. •! i j * place cards were red/hearts with inscriptions. To put a pretty ciiThe Mobile chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, will celebrate Washington’s birthday 'Friday afternoon between the hours of 4 and 6 with a delightful tea at the handsome home of Mrs. Louis Harrell Horn on Government street, and the occasion will be in the nature of a reception for the D. A. R. and their favored friends. Music will lend Its charms at the skilled rending of an Italian orchestra. while the amber delectation of tea with wafers, cakes and sweet meats will be served by a corps of young daughters of the D. A. R., and at the doorway will be stationed two(charming little figures in ancestral brocades of colonial times, who will| present silver tea pots for coin of modem days to swell the continental hall fund, to which the Mobile chapter is a liberal contributor. These continental teas of the D. A. R. have proven heretofore entertainments of exceptional interest and since the past is ever best, prophet of the future, the D. A. R. and their guests may confidently look forward to an afternoon of pleasure on Friday.Hearts and Cupids for Youthful Guests.In charming accessories of crimson hearts, red flowers, gilded bows arrows and a flock of mischievous little Cupids, Mies Loraine Cunningham entertained after delightful valentine fashion twenty-four happy young guests Friday evening at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cunningham, on Georgia avenue. The hotise was brilliantly aglow in red and refreshingly set with ferns and palms, while at the six small tables everything stood in readiness for the brisk game of progressive pea nuts. Fortune favored Miss Catherine Cramp ton, who won the first prize, a gold heart locket, inscribed with 1S07, while Mis* Mabel Hartwell won the consolation, a doubft heart valentine. Afterwards the players adjourned to the dining room, where a vision of beauty greeted them from the table set In red flowers above a large mirror centerpiece, with small valentine favors of red flowers and presided over by a bisque Cupid in tiny ornamental pots for each young guest, while heart strands fell from the chndaiier to the corners. The two course supperproceeded In charming development of red and came to a pretty close with Ices served in red flower cup:-. Thea obiimaxWT ~ ”to the valentine festivity there was h novel game of hearts inaugurated afterwards in the library, when a grca;glowing heart suspended from teechandelier was offered for piercing by gilded arrows, at which the players blindfolded tried their luck. The one of best aim to strike the heart's center was Miss Ethel West, and she received in token of her arrow’s correct stroke a pretty feather fan. Miss Lucy Leathei berry kept score for the gameand Miss Ruth Kyle served punch throughout the evening. The fortunate guests for hearts and Cupids were: Misses May Leatherbury. Eloise Hall, Klolse I bach. Care! and Mary McGowan. Olive Brooks. Orville Tacon lone Gordon, Aline Rlevlere Mamie Gordan, Margaret Horn, Loralne Lyons Vass, Mabel Hartwell, Mary Knight Rush, Marguerite Wefel, Gather! n • Cox, Ethel West. Katherine Crampton. Carlotta Hamilton, Elizabeth Hopper, Margaret Owen and Agnes Fowlkes.'!Naming the Baby.When God-father Stork flits Into the home with his bassenet of flannel swaddled pink sovereignty which is to rule the premises with gurgling insouciance it Is a pity the sly gentleman does not bring along a batch of names for choice of the new’ comer. Think of the Percivajs, Earls, Marma-dukes of erratic parental selection that afflict bearers of an uncompromising John, James or Thomas cast of countenance. And who has not smiled to note the elephantine set of some poor creature christen and in a defenseless infancy as Biossie,” Snowdrop,’’ or Dovie,” and then the queer combinations that sometimes result from ill assorted family names — as the toother's choice of her own patronymic—she was a Miss Stone—for the new comer which in this harsh instance gave her child the name, “Stone Ware,” as bad as the affliction of another poor mortal who labored through life as John Long Legge. From other lands we might adopt a better custom, of naming the baby. In China the small girls, those not drowned like extra kittens, you know, go nameless until the years of discretion when names are self chosen; in Japan none are named until five years old when pater familias decides. The Hindoo mothers fix on flower names, while Mahommedai'. parents each writo a choice of aaiftcs on slips of paper hodt
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Mobile Daily Item
Mobile, Alabama, US
Sun, Feb 17, 1907
Page 18
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